Obama victory: It’s a party at the White House

The official victory party for President Barack Obama was in Chicago, but supporters staged one of their own in front of the White House early Wednesday morning.

A Washington, D.C., police officer estimated that about a thousand people — mostly students — rushed to Pennsylvania Avenue, waving U.S. flags, chanting “four more years” and dancing in the streets. Many hoisted in the air life-size cardboard cut-outs of the president, while others climbed atop trees.